I’m a Professional Certified Coach, psychedelic integration guide, writer, educator, and lifelong student of what helps people change.
My path here has been somewhat unconventional. I studied Research Psychology at New College of Florida, where my undergraduate thesis explored self-compassion among LGBTQIA+ individuals, research I later presented at Teachers College, Columbia University. Since then, I’ve spent more than a decade working at the intersection of psychology, human development, trauma, wilderness, spirituality, and behavior change. My professional background has taken me from therapeutic wilderness expeditions to mental health coaching, group facilitation, psychedelic integration, crisis work, and private practice.
Outside of that work, I’m a writer, researcher, tea obsessive, DJ, and longtime student of Daoism. I’ve spent years developing The Exquisite Corpse, an extensive comparative study of English translations of the Dao De Jing, and I operate Deep Steep Tea Lounge, a mobile Gongfu-style tea experience.
Those interests aren’t entirely separate from my work. Tea has taught me patience and attention. Wilderness taught me humility and adaptability. Daoism taught me to question the assumption that transformation always requires more force. Psychedelics taught me just how strange, beautiful, difficult, and deeply personal human consciousness can be.
I tend to work especially well with thoughtful, curious people who want more than generic advice. My role isn’t to hand you an interpretation of your life or psychedelic experiences. I’m interested in helping you investigate them—carefully, honestly, and with enough room for ambiguity that we don’t have to force an answer before one emerges.
At heart, I’m fascinated by the same question that has followed me through psychology, wilderness, psychedelics, Daoism, writing, and tea: How do human beings actually change—and how do we learn to participate in that process without constantly getting in our own way?